NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENHANCED ENERGY AND EXERGY EFFICIENCIES IN PRIMARY ALUMINIUM PRODUCTION INDUSTRY

ENEXAL's Results, Publications and Reports

D.Panias, Some steps forward in sustainable exploitation of raw materials: The case of Alumina and Aluminum industry, Presentation at the Industrial Technologies 2014 conference

E.Balomenos, D. Kastritis, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, D. Boufounos The ENEXAL Bauxite Residue Treatment Process, Poster at the Industrial Technologies 2014 conference

M. Halmann, A. Steinfeld, M. Epstein and I. Vishnevetsky, Vacuum Carbothermic Reduction of Alumina, Mineral Processing & Extractive Metall. Rev., 35: 126–135, 2014

C. Kemper, E. Balomenos, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, B. Friedrich EAF carbothermic co-reduction of alumina and silica for the direct production of Al-Si master alloy TMS 2014 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego CAlifornia USA; Light Metals 2014; 02/2014

D. Kastritis,E. Balomenos, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, D. Boufounos The ENEXAL bauxite residue treatment process: Industrial scale pilot plant results TMS 2014 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego CAlifornia USA; Light Metals 2014; 02/2014

E. Balomenos, P. Diamantopoulos, D. Gerogiorgis, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, C. Kemper, L. Peters, B. Friedrich, I. Vishnevetsky, M. Epstein, M. Halmann, A. Haselbacher, Z. Jovanovic, A. Steinfeld, Investigations into innovative and sustainable processes for the carbothermic production of gaseous aluminium TMS 2014 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego CAlifornia USA; Light Metals 2014; 02/2014

I.Vishnevetsky, M. Epstein, R. Rubin, Solar carboreduction of alumina under vacuum, Proc. of 19 Int. Symp. SolarPACES, September 17-20, 2013, Las Vegas, USA, Energy Procedia (2014)

 I. Vishnevetsky R. Ben-Zvi, M. Epstein, S. Barak and R. Rubin, Solar Carboreduction of Alumina Under Vacuum, JOM,   The Journal of The Minerals, Metals &Materials Society (TMS), Vol. 65, No. 12, 2013, pp.1721-1732.

Y.Pontikes, et al. Management of Bayer's process Bauxite Residue , presented at ICSOBA 2013 

E. Balomenos, I. Giannopoulou, D. Gerogiorgis, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris "Resource-efficient and economically viable pyrometallurgical processing of industrial ferrous by-products" Journal of Waste and Biomass Valorization 11/2013; DOI 10.1007/s12649-013-9280-5

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C. Kemper, P. Diamantopoulos, E. Balomenos, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, B. Friedrich Investigation of a Novel Concept for Carbothermic Reduction of Alumina, Poster 
European Metallurgical Conference EMC 2013; 06/2013

E. Balomenos, I. Giannopoulou, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris "EAF Treatment for the Efficient and Complete Exploitation of the Bauxite Resisue (Red Mud) Produced in the Bayer Process" European Metallurgical Conference EMC 2013; 06/2013

C. Kemper,E. Balomenos  D. Panias,  B. Friedrich,  Thermodynamic Analysis and Experimental Validation of Carbothermically Produced AlSi-Alloy , World of Metallurgy - ERZMETALL 06/2013; 66(3):175-182.

E. Balomenos, C. Kemper, P. Diamantopoulos, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, B. Friedrich, Novel Technologies For Enhanced Energy And Exergy Efficiencies In Primary Aluminium Production Industry, 1st MME SEE 2013 Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Congress of South-East Europe, Serbia, May 2013

Balomenos E. and Panias D.(2013),Iron recovery and production of high added value products from the metallurgical by‐products of primary aluminium and ferronickel industries, 3rd International Slag Valorisation Symposium | Leuven | 19-20/03/2013

M. Halmann, A. Steinfeld, M. Epstein, E. Guglielmini, I. Vishnevetsky: Vacuum Carbothermic Reduction of Alumina, Proceedings of ECOS 2012-the 25th international conference on efficiency, cost, optimization, simulation and environmental impact of energy systems, June 26 -29, 2012, Perugia, Italy

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ENEXAL 's Article in the International Innovation Journal (high resolution)  - link to site

Vishnevetsky I., Ben-Zvi R., Epstein M. (2012) SOLAR METAL OXIDES REDUCTION UNDER VACUUM, EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ALUMINA CASE , SolarPACES 2012.

ENEXAL Project Presentation", Euro-Mediterranean Energy cooperation: working together for a better policy and sustainable energy, C-Energy Plus Workshop 2012.

Balomenos E.,  Giannopoulou I. Panias D., Paspaliaris I. (2012),“A Novel Red Mud Treatment Process”, 3rd International Conference on Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management, CRETE2012 

Kemper C., Ridderbuch M., Friedrich B., Balomenos E., Panias D., Paspaliaris I.,( 2012): " Energieeffizienz in der Al-Gewinnung: Hall- Héroult-Prozess vs carbothermische Reduktion", 45. Metallurgisches Seminar: Energieeffizienz in der Metallurgie, GDMB, pp 1-16 (Germany, 2012)  

Balomenos E., Panias D., Paspaliaris I. (2012),“Exergy Analysis of Metal Oxide Carbothemic Reduction under Vacuum – Sustainability prospects”, International Journal of Thermodynamics (IJoT), Vol. 15 (No. 3), pp. 141-148, 2012 

Halman M, Epstein M, Steinfeld A (2012) Carcothermic reduction of alumina by natural gas to aluminum and syngas: A thermodynamic study, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 33(5): 352-361, 2012.

Halman M, Epstein M, Steinfeld A (2012) Vacuum carbothemic reduction of Bauxite components: A thermodynamic study, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 33(3); 190-203, 2012

D. Gerogiorgis, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, (2012): Multiphysics CFD modeling of a free falling jet during melt-blowing slag fiberization, Published in: CFD Modeling and Simulation in Materials Processing (eds.: L. Nastac, L. Zhang, B.G. Thomas et al.), pp. 81-88, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA. Presented at TMS 2012 (USA, March 2012).

D. Gerogiorgis, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, (2012): Stochastic modeling and simulation of fiber evolution during melt-blowing slag fiberization, Published in: Collected Proceedings of the TMS 2012 Annual Meeting (CD-ROM edition), TMS, Warrendale, PA, USA. Presented at TMS 2012,(USA, March 2012).

Balomenos E., Panias D., Paspaliaris I., “Theoretical investigation of the volatilization phenomena occurring in the carbothermic reduction of alumina”, World of Metallurgy – ERZMETALL 64 No. 6 pp 5-13 (2011).  

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E. Balomenos, I. Gianopoulou, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris (2011): A Novel Red Mud Treatment Process : Process design and preliminary results , TRAVAUX Vol. 36 No. 40  - ISCOBA Conference 2011 India

D. Gerogiorgis, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, (2011): "CFD modeling of a molten slag jet free surface flow during mineral wool fiberization" 11 AIChe Conferance, October 2011 USA

I. Vishnevetsky and M. Epstein, (2011):"METAL OXIDES REDUCTION IN VACUUM: SETUP DEVELOPMENT AND FIRST EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS", SolarPACES 2011 Conference, September 2011, Spain.

E.Balomenos, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, B. Friedrich, B. Jaroni, A. Steinfeld, E. Guglielmini, M. Halmann, M. Epstein, I. Vishnevsky, (2011): Carbothermic Reduction of Alumina : A Review of developed processes and novel concepts, Proceedings of EMC 2011,pp 729-744, June 2011 Germany

E. Balomenos, I. Gianopoulou, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris, K. Perry, D. Boufounos, (2011): Efficient and complete exploitation of the bauxite residue (red mud) produced in the Bayer process, Proceedings of EMC 2011,pp 745-758, June 2011 Germany

E. Balomenos, D. Panias, I. Paspaliaris,(2011): Exergy Analysis of Extractive Vacuum Metallurgy-Sustainability prospects, Proceedings of  ELCAS2, pp 512-524, June 2011 Greece 

Balomenos E., Giannopoulou I., Panias D., Paspaliaris I. (2009), ENEXAL: NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENHANCED ENERGY AND EXERGY EFFICIENCIES IN PRIMARY ALUMINIUM PRODUCTION INDUSTRY, MJoM Vol 15 (4) 2009 p.203-217